On Tuesday 21 September 2004 10:20, Roland Giesler wrote: > Christoph Scheeder asked > > > Hi, > > 1.) is this a new installation > > No, it was Mandrake 8.2 box, but was recently upgraded to Mandrake 10. > > > 2.) if not what was changed when the failure first occured? > > Thing were running fine, at least that's what it appeared like. Then > sporadically people started getting authentication error when logging into > their IMAP mailboxes. Next the deputy principal reported that she had > received other people's mail. So I ran the following script to reset all > the folders:
Also, make sure that the file winbindd_idmap.tdb never gets deleted. It stores the SID to UID mappings and if it gets zapped you will see the symptoms you have reported. - John T. > > #!/bin/bash > > export IFS=: > > echo "Auto-creating home directories for windows domain users" > > getent passwd|grep ":10[0-9][0-9][0-9]"|while read USER FLAG USERUID > USERGID USER_LONG USERHOME USERSHELL; do > if [ -e $USERHOME ]; then > echo "Setting ownership of existing $USERHOME" > chown -R $USERUID.$USERGID $USERHOME > else > echo "Creating $USERHOME for $USER with $USERUID/$USERGID" > mkdir $USERHOME; > cp -a /etc/skel/* $USERHOME > chown -R $USERUID.$USERGID $USERHOME > fi > done; > > After this the all appeared to be fine. > > But then a few hours later thing got even worse. Even squid's cache file > got wrong ownership and stopped squid from spawning child processes. > > Eventually the machine hangs and I cannot see why. Btw is the a log where > hanging processes can be logged? Or could I enable logging to syslog? > > I restarted the machine about an hour ago and all folders seem fine now > > > 3.) please could you verify if the numeric user/group id's of > > the files in question change? use > > > > ls -ln > > > > on the files for this check. > > I would bet the numeric user/group id's don't change even when the > > usernames mapped to them change. > > please verify and post the result back to me. > > I'm checking that now. As soon as I have an id that's changed, I test and > post the result. > > Roland -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 OpenLDAP by Example, ISBN: 0131488732 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
